r/confidentlyincorrect • u/Red-Engineer • 1d ago
Free Lances for all!
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u/An0d0sTwitch 1d ago
I am a freelance photographer
I wander the earth, offering my services to those who are need, and asking nothing in return.
I need nothing but my sleeping bag, my camera, and my bow to hunt small game.
Its an honest life.
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u/consider_its_tree 1d ago
Maybe tomorrow I'll want to settle down. Until tomorrow I'll just keep moving on.
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u/Bergasms 1d ago
So you're saying a sort of open world survival game, like RDR2 but just the hunting and photography,..... sign me up
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u/Shadyshade84 1d ago
"Well, if we're getting technical, it means that when people ask me to work for free, I get to stab them with something long and sharp."
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u/E-S-McFly89 1d ago
Ergo, free lance.
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u/JoJackthewonderskunk 1d ago
What are we freeing Lance from and why does it need photographed?
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u/E-S-McFly89 1d ago
Well, first it depends on what kind of lance. Lance Bass? Trey Lance? Lance Armstrong? If it's the last one, there's a chance that one might lance Lance with the free lance you recieved from the freelance P.I. you hired. If that's the case, you won't want a freelance photographer because you don't want evidence of you lancing Lance with your free lance.
Now, if it's Trey Lance...well, he was just freed from the Cowboys.
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u/DadJokeBadJoke 1d ago
Lance isn't a common name these days, but in medieval times, you'd find Lance a lot
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u/The_golden_Celestial 1d ago
Reminds me of the story about the bloke with 3 daughters.
It’s Saturday night and each girl is getting ready to go out with their Date. Dad likes to meet the young suitors so when the doorbell rings, he jumps up out of his seat and strides to the door.
There’s a Nic, well groomed young man at the door, holding a bunch of flowers. “Hi, I’m Joe! I’ve come to take Flo to the show!”
Father calls Flo, and she heads off with Joe. Not long after there’s another knock at the door, the Father answers. “ Hi, I’m Lance. I’ve come to take Nance to the dance.” Nance comes to the door and they head off arm in arm.
Not long after that, another knock at the door. Father opens the door again to greet another well dressed young man. “Hi, I’m Buck…” “Piss off Buck!”
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u/dstarpro 1d ago
"Freelance means you work for free", I can't...
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u/Local_Climate9391 1d ago
Exposure is gold! I will be sure to share your name with my 250 followers! (I bought the bronze package for $9.99)
/s
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u/MuttMundane 1d ago
when you see a dumb american just remember they recently destroyed their education system
its somehow downhill from here.
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u/zahi36501 1d ago
Lance isn't a popular name anymore ..
In olden days they were called Lance a lot .
I'll see myself out..thank you 🚶♂️🚪
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u/Red-Engineer 1d ago
Try the veal
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u/zahi36501 1d ago
Hahaha 😂
Sorry my comment wasn't helpful I saw freelance and remembered that joke lol
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u/Similar_Vacation6146 1d ago
I suspect it actually did refer to a knight (metonymically: lance) who worked for himself, kind of like a sellsword.
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u/rhodiumtoad 1d ago
That is in fact what it was coined to mean, but it's a 19thC literary coinage rather than an actual historical term.
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u/Madouc 1d ago
What always keeps amazing me: These people have a smart phone, charged and online literally right in their hand and a quick check with an AI is only seconds away...
What is a freelancer?
A self-employed person who offers services to clients.
And then we type: "Oh dear, I always thought [text from above]"
That's how life should work when you permanently have all of humanities knowledge literally at hand!
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u/H010CR0N 1d ago
That requires the will to learn new things. And a lot of humanity would rather scream and cry than learn
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u/TheRealTowel 1d ago
quick check with an AI
But why? To learn random hallucinations? Why not a quick check with literally any other source?
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u/Kyra_Heiker 1d ago
Because why would you look up something that you already know to be true? The problem with stupid people is that they don't know that they're stupid because they're too stupid.
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u/AaronsAaAardvarks 1d ago
How many of the words that you just typed did you look up before you used them? You knew what they meant and used them appropriately. But it’s not hard to imagine someone else using a word and not realizing they used it wrong. Why would they look up that word? You didn’t, right?
The issue isn’t someone being able to correct themselves and not doing it. The issue is that they didn’t know they needed correcting. We should all be more forgiving of people who just don’t know, and reserve our judgements for people who CHOOSE not to know.
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u/lettsten 1d ago
If I'm less than 98 % sure, I check before correcting someone. Even if it is something that I think I know aaalmost for a fact. Sometimes I am wrong and happy I checked.
This person should have checked
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u/lettsten 1d ago
all of humanities knowledge literally at hand
Not even remotely true, plus ignoring the fact that finding and verifying much of that information is hard. Apart from the exaggeration the point still stands though, a quick dictionary lookup would answer this
(Also funny place to misspell "humanity's")
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u/AusCan531 1d ago
I only take no charge photos of lances. Everything and everyone else gets charged. (Charged with my lance)
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u/brucebay 1d ago
he should have said he takes the pictures of lances that are free, and should have ask if the other guy has a lace that is free.
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u/chalk_in_boots 1d ago
Can... Can I have a free lance though?
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u/KirasCoffeeCup 1d ago
The monkey's paw curls it's finger as scalpel floats near by, lancing your arm.
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u/Ill-Professor696 1d ago
People nowadays don't deserve having the internet in their pocket. Must be so hard to Google something before you double down on bullshit
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u/symbolicshambolic 1d ago
omfg, unreal. What made you mention that you don't work for free? Is that something you always say or did something happen that made you think you should bring it up?
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u/HugoStiglitz444 1d ago
The word actually comes from mercenaries in the middle ages who were sworn to no particular lord.
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u/ELMUNECODETACOMA 1d ago
Technically true, although the first known citation for it comes from 1820, so we don't know either way how those mercenaries referred to themselves.
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u/Wonderful-Ad5713 1d ago
To think all this could have been avoided with a simple English dictionary.
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u/Red-Engineer 1d ago
Why would Americans accept speaking a foreign unfree country’s language? That’s woke and socialist.
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u/hopewhatsthat 1d ago
It's probably fake, but it's plausible that there is someone out there that stupid and/or narcissistic.
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